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taa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "taa"

Translingual

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taa

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lower Tanana.

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).

Noun

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taa (plural taas)

  1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Etymology 2

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From Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).

Noun

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taa (plural taas)

  1. The letter ت in the Arabic script.

Etymology 3

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Interjection

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taa

  1. Alternative form of ta (“thanks”)

Anagrams

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Aukan

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Etymology 1

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From English other.

Adjective

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taa

  1. other; another
    taa dei ― another day, another (some other) time
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Etymology 2

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From English tar.

Noun

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taa

  1. tar (black substance; pitch)

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally “people's language”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtaa/
  • Rhymes: -aa
  • Hyphenation: ta‧a

Adjective

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taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)

  1. (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (“the Taa language”)

Finnish

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Etymology

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taka +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Syllabification(key): taa
  • Hyphenation(key): taa

Postposition

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taa [with genitive] (dialectal, poetic)

  1. (of movement) (to) behind
    Se laskeutui metsän taa. ― It landed behind the forest.

Inflection

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Declension of taka-
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative taka- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive takaa –sublative – –
accusative – –lative taas
taa		 –
inessive – –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive – –distributive – –
ablative – –temp. dist. – takaisin
allative – –prolative taitse –
essive takana –situative – –
translative taakse –oppositive – –
abessive – –
instructive – –
comitative – –

Cannot take a possessive suffix.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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compounds
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Gagauz

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Etymology

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From earlier taha, from Old Anatolian Turkish دَاخِی (daḫi), دَخِی (daḫi), from Proto-Turkic *takï, whence also da and dä. Compare Turkish daha, de, da, dahi; Azerbaijani daha, də, da and archaic dəxi.

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Adverb

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taa

  1. forms comparitives of the following adjective or adverb, more, -er.
    • 1938, Mihail Ciachir, Dicționar Gagauzo (Tiurco) - Român Pentru Gagauzii Din Basarabia, page 1:
      Laflâc gagauzcea (tiurccea) hem romândja (moldovandja) Bessarabiealâ gagauzlar icin - gagauzlarân eardâmdjisâ taa colai iurenmeea român dilini hem taa ei laf-etmeea dei românja (moldovândja)
      Gagauz(Turkish) and Romanian (Moldovan) dictionary for Bessarabian Gagauz people - helper of the Gagauz people to learn the Romanian language easier and to better speak Romanian (Moldovan)
    taa eni ― newer
    taa gözäl ― more beautiful
  2. yet, still
  3. so far, as yet
  4. even
  5. more, else

Further reading

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  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 76
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “taa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 454

Greenlandic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

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Noun

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taa

  1. human being

Interjection

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taa

  1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!
See also: ta

References

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  • DAKA
  • (noun): taa in Katersat
  • (interjection): taa in Katersat

Lutuv

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): [tāā]

Verb

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taa

  1. to be small

References

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  • Kelly Harper Berkson, Amanda Bohnert, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Consonant Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎[2], volume 3, number 1

Nzadi

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Noun

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tàá (plural tàá)

  1. father

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Further reading

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  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɑː/
  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Etymology 1

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From earlier *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).

Noun

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taa class IX (plural taa class X)

  1. lamp, light
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  • → Kikuyu: tawa
  • → Luganda: etaala
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: itara

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).[1]

Noun

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taa class IX (plural taa class X)

  1. obedience
    Synonym: utii

References

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  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 194 Nr. 1731

Tetum

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

Verb

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taa

  1. to chop, to cut up

Ye'kwana

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Pronunciation

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Ideophone

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taa

  1. bam, banging

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[3], Lyon
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